Marc-Antoine here with a look at what’s happening in your Café.  This week, we had a few interesting articles in the system utilities category and we also have some helpful tips for your Android.  Without further ado, let’s take a look!

Articles

Software for people with Disabilities – What is being done to help disabled computer users improve their accessibility to computers.  What are some of the challenges (and solutions) that they face?  Miguel’s thoughtful piece explores some options and discusses these issues. 

Tips on Reading Google Analytics – Learn some quick tips for measuring Google Analyics effectively.  Some of these tips include learning how to filter your stats, and why you should not necessarily trust your analytics dashboard.  If you are looking for more out of Google Analytics phrased in plain English, take a look at this.

What Amazing Eyes You Have – Jason discovered a great method for extracting only the most important information from an article while also creating a impressive visual.  These tag clouds are awesome displays of word and color.  Check out the Many Eyes community!

DRM and Gaming – We’ve been asking if the software you own is really yours, but this DRM situation is dramatically affecting the gaming industry.  Some of the top publishers are facing problems with distribution and licensing.  How do you balance great content distribution against piracy and the need to make money on a product?

Conversations

IE 9 + Bing – Check out the Bing experience in Internet Explorer 9 with HTML 5 incorporated.  It looks pretty impressive, but will it be enough to get you to use IE?

Mac is For Games – Mac is beginning a push toward games.  Mac has never been first choice for gamers, but will this change as the company continues to grow?

Internet Explorer vs Safari – Who will win this generation of the browser wars?  IE boasts 2 million downloads in its first 2 days as opposed to Safari that took 10 million in its first week.

We’ve been getting many new members every day, so we just want to welcome everyone to SoftCity.  As always, I’ll be back next Monday for your roundup of this week.  We’ll see you around!

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